"Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged……" — Ellen G. White
"Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God."
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175 Quotes by Ellen G. White
Ellen G. White has 175 quotes on this site.
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Men professing godliness offer their bodies upon Satan's altar, and burn the incense of tobacco to his satanic majesty. Does…
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We should strive to understand the weakness of others.
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Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
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Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.
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It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the…
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True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the…
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A modest, godly woman will dress modestly. . . The one who is simple and unpretending in her dress and…
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Our clothing, while modest and simple, should be of good quality . . . It should be chosen for durability…
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Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner.…
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What man with a human heart, who has ever cared for domestic animals, could look into their eyes, so full…
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The majority of the diseases which the human family have been and still are suffering under, they have created by…
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Events in the train of prophecy that had their fulfillment away in the past are made future, and thus by…
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What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged…
— John Quincy Adams
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Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge…
— Petrarch
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THESE are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. The year plunges into…
— William Carlos Williams
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Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
— Socrates
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Men who have flattered themselves into this opinion of their own abilities, look down on all who waste their lives…
— Samuel Johnson
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Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The creative person prefers the richness of the disordered to the stark barrenness of the simple.
— Donald M. MacKinnon
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
— George Carey
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The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to…
— Hugh B. Brown
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Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the…
— Joshua Reynolds
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